Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings